Ben Chung Kam-lun (; born 19 November 1988) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the former member and the former chairperson of the

Sai Kung District Council The Sai Kung District Council () is the district council for the Sai Kung District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Sai Kung District Council currently consists of 31 members, of which the district is divided into 29 constituen ...

for

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and convenor of

Neo Democrats The Neo Democrats was a pro-democracy, localist political group in Hong Kong composed mainly of former and disenchanted members of the Democratic Party New Territories East branch after the 2012 constitutional reform proposals. It had held o ...

. He graduated from the

Lingnan University Lingnan University (LN/LU), formerly called Lingnan College, is a public liberal arts university in Hong Kong. It aims to provide students with an education in the liberal arts tradition and has joined the Global Liberal Arts Alliance since ...

in Cultural Studies. He has been active in politics since he was 12 when he volunteered for

lor

Gary Fan Gary Fan Kwok-wai (; born 30 October 1966) is a Hong Kong politician. He was the member of Legislative Council from 2012 to 2016 and from 2018 to 2019 after winning the 2018 by-election for New Territories East. He is also a former member o ...

. He was also the chairman of the Youth Conference 2006 of the

Hong Kong Secondary Students Union The Hong Kong Secondary Students Union (Chinese characters: 香港中學生聯盟) is a pro-democracy student organisation in Hong Kong established in August 2003 by some pro-democratic secondary school students of Hong Kong. Formed by various st ...

. He joined the

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but left with Fan over the party's deal with the Beijing authorities in the 2012 constitutional reform proposal and co-founded

with other Democrat defectors. He first contested in the 2011 District Council election in

. He won the seat with 2,221 votes and became the youngest winner in that election. He was re-elected in 2015. In the 2016 Legislative Council election, he ran on Gary Fan's nine-man ticket in the New Territories East. The ticket received more than 31,000 votes but failed to get Fan re-elected. On 6 January 2021, Chung was among 55 members of the pro-democratic camp who were arrested under the national security law, specifically its provision regarding subversion. The group stood accused of organising and participating in unofficial primary elections held by the camp in July 2020. Unlike most of the group, Chung was released on bail on 7 January.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chung, Ben 1988 births Living people District councillors of Sai Kung District Alumni of Lingnan University (Hong Kong) Neo Democrats politicians Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians Hong Kong political prisoners